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  • Thought I'd let you know

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  • Slack got me through college on an ancient (even at the time) ThinkPad 600e. Good times!

    I had a suite of scripts to log in to the university Linux cluster, download the kernel source and out-of-tree modules (required for the PCMCIA WiFi adapter), compile it, and rsync it back to my laptop.

  • What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?

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  • nc is useful. For example: if you have a disk image downloaded on computer A but want to write it to an SD card on computer B, you can run something like

    user@B: nc -l 1234 | pv > /dev/$sdcard

    And

    user@A: nc B.local 1234 < /path/to/image.img

    (I may have syntax messed up--also don't transfer sensitive information this way!)

    Similarly, no need to store a compressed file if you're going to uncompress it as soon as you download it---just pipe wget or curl to tar or xz or whatever.

    I once burnt a CD of a Linux ISO by wgeting directly to cdrecord. It was actually kinda useful because it was on a laptop that was running out of HD space. Luckily the University Internet was fast and the CD was successfully burnt :)

  • struggle rule

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  • A dishwasher is a total quality of life thing for us.

    It sucks that some places don't offer them. They're not even very expensive, it's just the kitchen real estate/installation that sucks.

    A place I loved in after college had a full size unit on wheels that you hooked up to sink to use---worked fine, just took up space. They also make countertop units, but I have no idea how well those work.

  • 1337 h4x0r rule

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  • You might say, "well akshually it should be sudo apt upgrade, because you shouldn't generally use the the root account," but some of us just have apt aliased to sudo apt.

  • Both Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses each

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  • 4*8 = 24

    TIL ;)

    Each /8 is 1/256th of all IPv4 addresses, not counting reserved/illegal addresses. Not sure where 1/1000 is coming from...

  • What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ?

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  • I'm a ~/tmp man myself.

  • Fun/interesting things to self host?

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  • Maybe not a service in the typical sense, but setting up your router+server to route your home network traffic through a VPN is a fun project.

    My router (MikroTik) supports WireGuard, so I can use it with Mullvad for the whole house---but wg is demanding and it's a slow router, so while it can NAT at ~1Gbps, it can't do WireGuard at more than ~90Mbps. So, I set up WireGuard/Mullvad on a little SBC with a fast processor, and have my router use that instead. Using policy based routing and/or mangling, I can have different VLANs/subnets/individual hosts selectively routed through the VPN.

    It's a fun exercise, not sure I implemented it in a smart way, but it works :)

  • Articles of impeachment introduced against RFK Jr.

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  • It doesn't change your point, but he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, not for a sex act.

  • The burden of adulthood

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  • I feel like this person has never had a good salad...

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  • I mean, this is Lemmy---practically everyone here feels superior to folks who use Twitter/reddit/Meta products/etc.

    (Only half /s with this one...)

  • Arch be Like

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  • I assume you're referring to the cuckpdate chair.

  • Is not you. I'm just lazy.

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  • Whenever I have a Linux box without Internet I just USB tether an Android phone---if the phone is on WiFi then it uses that (not cell), so it's basically just a WiFi adapter that's almost universally supported. (I think it NATs, so in some circumstances won't work, but good enough for most emergency use cases.)

  • Unreal Tournament 2004 is getting revived by OldUnreal with approval from Epic Games

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  • IIRC UT2K4 shipped with a Linux port on the install media.

    In college around the time this came out, there were beefy Linux machines in one of the libraries. You could ssh into them for homework, but you could also physically access them. Xenon, with Nvidia Quadro gfx is my recollection.

    So, I would rsync the game to /tmp (no root access of course, and home quota was too small), walk over and enjoy it on high end hardware. Fun stuff!

  • Which private (no cloud requirement) wireless home security cameras save footage locally without monthly subscription?

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  • I would recommend PoE security cameras. You probably want support for RTSP / ONVIF.

    I have some Amcrest cameras talking to Frigate. It is completely local---cameras on a separate VLAN that can't talk to the Internet, footage is recorded on a server running Frigate. Works very well for me. No vendor lock-in is also nice!

  • File clerks at elevator desks in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937

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  • Is this NoSQL?

  • Monkeys rule the circus

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  • I probably would have ordered my matrix so that my/my and (not my)/(not my) were the diagonal elements, but that's just nitpicking I suppose.

  • Mississauga, Canada 🇨🇦 has voted to ban children from playing in the streets

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  • The pandemic was great for my city (San Francisco) in this regard---they shut/heavily discouraged a bunch of streets to through traffic for a number of "slow streets." Kids and adults alike run, bike, scooter, etc. in the middle of these streets. Obviously people love them, so they remained after the pandemic (at least, the one's I'm familiar with remain).

    It's not a full-on car ban, but it's a start!

  • New Mad Max movie concept

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  • Not the parent you're responding to, but I think it's that my "mediocre" comment was a reference to the movie, and yours was a literal response to my joke. A bit of a whoosh situation.

  • The less complicated life of a male

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